So I have a wrecked 2006 5mt Lgt. I purchased a rolling chassis 05 5eat Lgt. I want to swap my engine and transmission over to this car. Can I use the trans controller from the manual trans car and not have to pull the whole under dash wiring harness? Also, can I just wire in my neutral safety switch to the preexisting wiring harness? should I use my dashboard and gauge cluster as well? any help is appreciated

He's saying he wants to make his new 5EAT car a 5MT with the parts left over from his wrecked 5MT, hopefully without having to mess with all the electronics, take out the dash, etc.

You'll have to take out the dash, the cluster.. The whole bit. Basically transferring your old car's electronics over to the new one. If it were easy to do, don't you think we'd have threads with pictorial walkthroughs?

So far I've gotten the dash out of both cars and now working on putting the one from my manual trans car in. Just decided to strip the shell completely and move everything over piece by piece. I know everything on my wrecked car is good so I can't see why it wouldn't work in the other car. I also got the pedal assembly out of both cars and test fit it and that shouldn't be a problem. Anything else anyone can think of that would stop me?

So far I've gotten the dash out of both cars and now working on putting the one from my manual trans car in. Just decided to strip the shell completely and move everything over piece by piece. I know everything on my wrecked car is good so I can't see why it wouldn't work in the other car. I also got the pedal assembly out of both cars and test fit it and that shouldn't be a problem. Anything else anyone can think of that would stop me?

You're gonna have to basically move the entire body and engine wiring harness, in addition to some more engine bay work, like moving the clutch slave and master cylinder. Also the trans mounts are different. Now's a great time to get the Group N package if you haven't already -- should be about $200 for the engine, trans and pitch stop.

I looked into this extensively a year or so ago. Trust me when I say, it's not worth it, and you will never get done right. It may well run, but you will be plagued by electrical gremlins and errors. In short, you will need:

I looked into this extensively a year or so ago. Trust me when I say, it's not worth it, and you will never get done right. It may well run, but you will be plagued by electrical gremlins and errors. In short, you will need: